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In today’s edition, we review the latest campaign financing reports showing the most vocal democratic opponents of President Donald Trump who are undergoing financial managerials. In addition, Andrea Mitchell examines a recent immigration decision little induced by the administration.
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Anti-Trump progressives see a boom in fundraising
The energy on the left during the first months of the second administration of President Donald Trump did not all match the levels of “resistance” of his first. But this energy is still there, and as revealed by the first financing reports of the 2025 campaign, the most frank Washington Democrats take advantage of it.
As Ben Kamisar, Bridget Bowman and Joe Murphy ReportA handful of anti -Trump vocal progressives displayed massive fundraising features in the first three months of the year – even if they are not ready to be re -elected in 2026 or will not face competitive races.
Senator Bernie Sanders, i-vt., Leaded the pack, collecting $ 11.5 million over this period, including nearly $ 10 million, donations of less than $ 200. He spent $ 3.2 million and had a huge $ 19 million in the bank.
Sanders has just won his re -election in November. And at 83, it seems little likely to set up a third presidential offer in 2028 or to request another mandate from the Senate in 2030.
But he was Hold rallies across the country In recent weeks that have attracted huge crowds alongside another progressive star, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y. It raised $ 9.6 million in the first quarter of 2025 while spending $ 5 million, leaving it $ 8.2 million. Ocasio-Cortez, 35, will face a re-election next year in a siege of the Democrat Chamber, but some members of the party Already encourages him To find the headquarters of the Senate of Chuck Schumer in 2028, otherwise the White House.
As for the other promising democrats who seek to fill the void of party leaders, Senator Chris Murphy, d-conn., collected $ 8 million from January to the end of March. He also spent $ 4 million and had $ 9.6 million. Like Sanders, Murphy, 51 can have his views on a higher desk.
These fundraising totals were out of the ordinary for candidates during the years of non-election without high level races on the horizon. In comparison, they eclipse the figures that Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and Murphy displayed during the same period in 2023.
Part of this money also sank to the best candidates of the party in the battlefields of 2026. Senator Jon Ossoff, D-GA.The main target of the Republicans for defeat on the Senate map next year, has collected $ 11.2 million.
One thing that the four Democrats have in common: they were among the best expenditure in the party to collect funds on Facebook and Instagram during the first quarter, Andrew Arenge Decision decision -making notes NBC News.
Find out more to remember new campaign financing reports →
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What to know of the Trump presidency today
- American district judge James Boasberg said in an order That he found a probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt rather than the expulsion flights he sent to Salvador.
- Senator Chris Van Hollen, d-md., Steering wheel for El Salvador To put pressure for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly expelled by the United States government.
- Trump administration continued the Maine not to comply With its pressure to ban transgender athletes in female sports.
- California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom continued the Trump administration on its radical prices On American trade partners, arguing that it was illegal to use certain emergency powers to impose them.
- The NAACP also relates to the Trump administration in court, Continue the Department of Education On the use of funding to push schools to reduce diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
- A federal judge blocked a new decree Of Trump punishing an eminent law firm who successfully continued Fox News for promoting false allegations of electoral fraud.
- Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro said he hadn’t heard of Trump Since the criminal fire of his home on Sunday. The man accused of having set fire to the residence of the Governor of Pennsylvania early Sunday 911 after the attack and suggested that he was upset by Shapiro’s position On the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to newly released search terms.
The Trump immigration movement that stole under the radar
By Andrea Mitchell
Many people across the country are galvanized by the case of the Maryland resident, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was expanded by mistake to a notorious prison in Salvador, as Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, discovered When the angry participants confronted him with a town hall.
Almost unnoticed in the middle of the fury was a prescription that the Ministry of Internal Security delivered Friday evening to send tens of thousands of people to Afghanistan and Cameroon, where they could face famine, imprisonment or death.
It is a familiar tactic when the administrations of the two parties want to “bury” unfavorable news: the publication of decisions just before the weekend. (The writers on “The West Wing” called him “getting out of the garbage day”.)
The move of the DHS has canceled a program offering temporary protected status in the United States for almost all Afghan and Cameroonian asylum seekers who have qualified. At the end of last year, 9,000 Afghans and 3,000 people from Cameroon were in the program, according to the Congressional Research Service. As part of the program, they can stay temporarily in the United States and obtain jobs. Many Afghans are women, who have been targeted by the Taliban for their gender, in particular those linked to the American army, the State Department or Civic Organizations for decades of American war and occupation.
In Cameroon, many of the affected people are minorities in a country ravaged by racial and ethnic violence. It is estimated that 900,000 people in Cameroon are displaced internally and 60,000 fled the country. The United Nations reports that Cameroon also houses refugees from Nigeria, Chad, Niger and the Central African Republic, countries that also suffer from extreme poverty and ethnic conflicts.
James Sussman, of the International Rescue Commission, told NBC News to send these people to their country of origin was a violation of the federal and international law, even if the asylum seekers are already faced with one -year delays due to the arrears. And last week, the State Department canceled humanitarian aid programs in Afghanistan provided by what was the American agency for international development.
Sussman said: “People who come to the United States under protected status are supposed to be protected against the turmoil to the countries from which they came.”
Critics say that a common thread connects the processing by the administration of those who are about to lose their temporary protection status with its steep cancellation of student visas and deportations of people like Abrego Garcia. In all these cases, they say, there is a lack of regular procedure and humanitarian concern which has undergone previous republican and democratic administrations.
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